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Hardware MacBook Air News

Haswell-based MacBook Air sports record-breaking SSD benchmark test results, PCIe bus cited

If you were considering snagging a brand new, just-released MacBook Air notebook, you’re going to like this. Per 9to5Mac and French web site MacBidouille, Apple’s new Haswell-powered MacBook Airs produced SSD read and write speeds so fast in bench tests that they initially thought it must have been a bug in their test software. A […]

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Hardware Mac Pro Rumor

Rumor: Next-gen Mac Pro units to feature Thunderbolt, USB 3.0 and 8-core Xeon X5 CPUs

This could be snazzy. Per MIC Gadget, Apple’s anticipated Mac Pro update will feature Intel Xeon E5 series processors with either six or eight cores, as well as native support for USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt. The new Mac Pro desktop tower has been given a codename of K5B according to the report. It will also […]

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hard drive News

Hitachi announces new hard drives, cites new capacity of up to 1 terabyte per platter

There’s some good news: all the data you love, it just got packed in a bit tighter. According to Macworld, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Tuesday announced that it’s started shipping hard disk drives that cram a terabyte of capacity onto a single spinning platter. The new technology allows Hitachi to produce slimmer form factors. The […]

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hard drive Hardware Mac mini News

iFixit releases dual hard drive kit for 2011 Mac mini units

This might prove useful. Teardown specialist and accessory manufacturer iFixit has announced that the company has released its Mac Mini Dual Hard Drive Kit. While the kit doesn’t come with an additional hard drive, it provides you with the tools to install one, including a proprietary SATA hard drive cable, four shock-absorbing mounting grommets, four […]

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hard drive Hardware News

Samsung looking to release 512GB solid-state notebook hard drive

You love having a solid-state hard drive, but you’ve had to put your Mac’s files on a crash diet to fit everything on there. This might be the solution. Per Electronista, Samsung announced its 2.5-inch PM830, capable of holding as much as 512GB, twice as much as most SSDs, but also has the headroom to […]